Quote Originally Posted by garyng
Ah, that explains why I encountered it once and mysteriously disappeared. I must have use KNOPPIX to build but later have my own distro making the problem disappear.
Makes sense. I guess most people don't encounter it because they hdinstall and work from there rather than remastering from the live-cd directly, as I did.

Yet another mystery solved.

Now I'm down to the last one on my list: the cloop hangs on high-load with recent kernels.